Animal Rights Books for Sale

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February 20, 2008

ISAR has for sale a limited number of historically important books on the subject of animal rights. Individuals or organizations interested in purchasing books, either singly or in quantity, should Click Here and provide either an email address or telephone number so that an ISAR representative can take the order. Descriptions of each book, and the price per single copy (shipping and handling costs are added), are as follows:

Animals’ Rights, Considered in Relation to Social Progress
By Henry S. Salt
Preface by Professor Peter Singer

Originally published in 1892, Salt’s classic Animal Rights, Considered in Relation to Social Progress was rescued from obscurity by ISAR and republished in 1980. The book is, in the words of Professor Singer’s Preface, “the best of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works on the rights of animals.” ($5.00, hardcover)

The Struggle for Animal Rights
By Professor Tom Regan
Introduction by Colman McCarthy

Published by ISAR in 1987 and dedicated to its founder–the late “Helen Jones who understood animal rights before the rest of us”–Regan’s book provides a clear statement of the animal activists’ agenda–what they must do, where it should be pursued, and how they can succeed. ($3.00, softcover)

The Extended Circle
By Jon Wynne-Tyson

Lauding the author’s anthology of humane thought–which contains commentary by personages from St. Francis of Assisi to William Wordsworth–Professor Peter Singer noted that it is “a marvelous collection of material which will bring encouragement and inspiration to every compassionate reader,” while Professor Regan said that “this remarkable book should become the bible of all concerned with humane education and the concept of animal rights.” ($7.00 hardcover, $5.00 softcover)

Christianity and the Rights of Animals
By Andrew Linzey

It is no secret that that the Biblical and Christian view of animals was that they did not possess any rights that humans were obliged to respect. In this book, the author–Chaplain and Director of Studies at the Center for the Study of Theology, University of Essex–presents a comprehensive and well-argued theological case for the rights of animals, offering a challenging critique of modern insensitivy toward animal life. ($3.00 softcover)

All Heaven in a Rage
By E.S. Turner

In the nature of a factual/intellectual expose, this book describes how the British nation was led and forced into showing some compassion to certain animals. It illuminates the philosophical, legislative, and social components of that struggle. As one of the book’s endorsers wrote, “it ends once and for all the smug myth that the British are the only nation that loves animals and that the only people who are cruel to them are foreigners.” ($3.00, softcover)

The Duty of Mercy, and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
By Humphrey Primatt
Richard D. Ryder (ed.)

Humphrey Primatt, a clergyman, lived in the Eighteenth Century and was among the first to address the issue of animal rights. Richard D. Ryder discovered Primatt’s book in 1976 in an Oxford library. In Ryder’s Introduction to it, he writes that “with unprecedented clarity, [here] was a complete book devoted to the moral treatment of animals and composed by a mind comprehensible to my own. This little known doctor of divinity displayed in the 1770s remarkable similar thoughts to those Peter Singer, Tom Regan . . . Andrew Linzey, myself and others had recently been expressing in the 1970s.” ($3.00, softcover)

Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes
Lewis Gompertz
Peter Singer (ed.)

Lewis Gompertz (1779-1825) was, among his activities on behalf of animals, a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Great Britain. In Professor Peter Singer’s Preface to Gompertz’s book, he writes that “Gompertz was an authentic pioneering exponent of the set of ideas that, a century and a half later, have been taken up by the animal liberation movement.” ($3.00, softcover).